Keywords: Madonna Benois.jpg Leonardo da Vinci Benois Madonna jpg 1475-1478 Oil on canvas transferred from panel The Hermitage St Petersburg Russia Mary and her child are naturally engrossed in their game and their gazes make them appear lifelike to a degree that can be found in no contemporary Italian painting of the Madonna Leonardo achieved this quality by means of nature studies In 1478 he noted that he was working on two Madonnas The Benois Madonna can be dated to that period The painting has in its present condition been overpainted in some places and has lost some of the paint layer The painting was also called the Madonna Benois because of the family who owned it This canvas demonstrates the newly developed method of chiaroscuro - a lighting/shading technique that made the figures appear three dimensional It entered the Hermitage in 1914 en wikipedia 2005-03-30 Pankajv wikipedia en Pd-old original upload log page en wikipedia Madonna_Benois jpg 2005-03-30 08 56 Pankajv 480×726×8 34566 bytes <nowiki>1475-1478 Oil on canvas transferred from panel The Hermitage St Petersburg Russia Mary and her child are naturally engrossed in their game and their gazes make them appear lifelike to a degree that can be found in no contemporary Italian painting</nowiki> Madonna Benois |